Marilyn Lloyd

Marilyn Lloyd (3 January 1929-19 September 2018) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-TN 3) from 3 January 1975 to 3 January 1995, succeeding LaMar Baker and preceding Zach Wamp.

Biography
Marilyn Laird was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and she owned the radio station WTTI in Dalton, Georgia and Executive Aviation in Winchester, Tennessee. She went on to marry Chattanooga-based WDEF-TV television anchor Mort Lloyd, who died in a plane crash in 1974 while running for the US House of Representatives. Marilyn took his place on the ballot, and she was elected as the Democratic congresswoman from TN-3, defeating Republican incumbent LaMar Baker. She was Tennessee's first full-term congresswoman, and she was nationally affiliated with the Boll Weevil Democrats, although she was considered a moderate in Tennessee. In 1994, she decided against running for re-election due to her previous election victory being too close to call. She became a domestic violence advocate after leaving the US Congress, and she died in 2018 at the age of 89.